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Second-Hand Bookshops in Britain: 2024 Report
About ninety second-hand bookshops in the UK were reported as closed in 2024. This figure is based on reports to The Book Guide , usually ...
But those we have lost do include some long-established firms such as Arthur Probsthain of Great Russell Street, Bloomsbury, the veteran specialists in Orientalia; Broadhurst’s of Southport, Lancashire, which had been a haven of old-world courtesy; and Candle Lane Books of Shrewsbury, an archetypal story-book bookshop in an early 18 th century house, with four floors, two creaking staircases, rooms at odd angles and a dusty attic. "Vault" sounds austere, but this is a welcoming space, lamplit and hushed (at least when I was there), with a carefully curated selection of books.’ There are other examples of such hybrids opening, such as a book café in Folkestone, Kent, and a shop in Frome, Somerset, which also offers collectable records and a badge museum. In my own part of the world, for example, there are stocks of several hundreds and more at the back of a rural church, upstairs in a craft gallery, in a supermarket foyer, in a community hub, and at least twice a month in a village hall flea market (with some particularly unusual finds).
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